Photo: OldYorkGuy · CC BY-SA 3.0O'Connor-Parkview has one public library, Toronto Public Library - Dawes Road
Toronto Public Library serves the whole of Toronto, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 3,110,984 people, O'Connor-Parkview among them. Its borrowers took out 3.7 items per person served in 2024. Like every Ontario library, it reports one typical week of visits, and the year is that week times 52: an estimate.
B−Civic life#92 of 866 in OntarioWhat O'Connor-Parkview’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in O'Connor-Parkview grades B−: #92 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for O'Connor-Parkview.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Toronto mailing addresses hold 5,846 registered charities
There is no count for O'Connor-Parkview on its own: the charities are those of all of Toronto. It works out to 1.8 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
Across Ontario, 32.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 31.0% to 33.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
A typical week brings about 268,633 visits
The year 2024 at Toronto Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
O'Connor-Parkview’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of O'Connor-Parkview.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside O'Connor-Parkview; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in O'Connor-Parkview
Does O'Connor-Parkview have a public library?
Yes: Toronto Public Library - Dawes Road.
How busy is Toronto Public Library?
Over 2024: 11,595,454 items out on loan, 13,968,916 visits through the door.
Library statistics: Ontario Public Library Statistics, 2024. Library locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Statistics Canada, Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (2020). Charities: Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities (2024), charitable organizations only.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).